Microsoft 365 Outage Hits 74 Countries, Exposing Big Tech Dependence Risks

Many businesses and consumers were unable to communicate through digital channels as a global outage of some Microsoft services left people scrambling.

When one email service goes down, others don't stop trying to send emails to users of the affected service. The result is snarled traffic that takes time to clear up.

The tech giant reported broad recovery and stability across its services, but said full services were still being restored.

The company says a bad update— not a cyberattack or AI— caused its servers around the world to crash.

A widespread outage hit Microsoft platforms including Outlook on Nov. 12, with many users encountering trouble using their e-mail accounts and other errors across the tech giant's suite of apps. …

Email bouncebacks and recurring errors in corporate Microsoft apps forced Madison Smith and her colleagues in Vancouver to take an early lunch.

The company described 'encouraging' progress on efforts to overcome a second day of disruptions to its email, messaging and other services.

Microsoft has apologised for the issue, which it said was due to a technical failure.

The tech giant is racing to fully restore Outlook, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 services following a widespread outage.

Countless businesses, schools, hospitals, and governments have found out the hard way what it means to rely on a single company's systems to get things done. And next time could be even worse.

The infrastructure of the internet is more fragile than we'd like it to be.

The City of Toronto has said some services may be temporarily unavailable or delayed as a result of the outage

What caused the Microsoft outage, which services have been affected and how widespread has the disruption been?

While most reported their core systems were still running, trading and administrative work slowed in places in the latest reminder of how much of the world's commerce, public services and …

The outage has interfered with the operations of businesses worldwide.

Microsoft 365 services partially restored after global outage | English

The outage impacting various Microsoft 365 services including Outlook, Teams, and the Copilot AI assistant, has caused disruption to governments and businesses globally.